Changelog: Adobe InDesign plug-in (v26)

The suite of Adobe InDesign actions includes composing new InDesign documents or books; assembling and repurposing existing InDesign documents into new books; and exporting from InDesign to EPUB, IDML, print, web and accessible PDF. Typefi also augments native InDesign extensibility with our Event Script architecture. For more information about the Adobe InDesign plug-in, please get in touch.

We release updates regularly and it's our goal to make sure that our software works well, constantly—that Typefi continues to deliver, every day. If you have any feedback or run into any issues, please drop us a line. We're happy to help.

InDesign plug-in version 20 includes new features, and other improvements and bug fixes.

Event Scripts

Typefi Server 8.4 replaces the legacy multi-file selection input and path-based InDesign event script fields with a new, token-based files input. For Create InDesign document or Create InDesign book actions, this enables events scripts to be uploaded and managed directly within Typefi Server like any other file.

Click Choose File to browse for files on your Typefi Server (click Browse within the Choose File dialog to browse for files from your local computer). You can change the order of files within a multi-file input by dragging a token to a new position.

To remove a file, click Delete (x) in the token or select the token and press the Delete key.

As you hover over a token, a tooltip appears to reveal the location of the file.

CAUTIONThe new token-based files input is not backward-compatible with the legacy path-based InDesign event script fields. Before upgrading to Typefi Server 8.4 and Adobe InDesign plug-in version 20 or later, make note of each script run at each event in each workflow. After you've upgraded, upload your scripts to your Typefi Server (see Working with Files) and then edit each of your workflows to re-select each script for each event.

NEW Added Package InDesign document action to ensure that all fonts and links are included with your InDesign file for handoff to a service provider

NEW Added support for Content XML 3.1, including additional list numbering styles (padded numerals, and Arabic, Chinese, and Hebrew language numbering), and the new <toc> and <meta> tags; for more information, see Content XML 3.1

Fixed a bug where a character style at the end of a paragraph may also be applied to the following paragraph when this following paragraph is empty or only contains whitespace

Improved handling of unknown sections (jobs no longer fail with undefined is not an object)

Fixed a bug where <tps:entry valign="justify"> was ignored (cells defaulted to valign="top")

NEW Added insertion of Element Anchors for fixed elements (similar to Typefi Publish 5 and earlier) to preserve sequence of XML elements when roundtrip editing from InDesign to Content XML

NEW Added support for inheriting the paragraph style from an applied cell style (to support Microsoft Excel tables with the Microsoft Word plug-in version 10 or later; requires CXML to use non-styled paragraphs, for example <tps:p type="">)

NEW Added PDF crop options (also for .ai and .indd) to specify how much of a PDF page to place

NEW Added support for InDesign CC 2017

Added warnings when attempting to create an InDesign document with multiple instances of a single TOC or when placing a TOC within a Main Story sectionFixed passing of InDesign CC-specific enumerations to InDesign CS6 that caused Export to EPUB to fail with Error: epubExportPreferences

Fixed incorrect calculation of page sidedness when starting page number was set to "2"

Fixed undefined is not an object error when encountering a broken element (where a floating element has lost its link to its anchor)

Fixed inability to view job folder after using Export to CXML after Create InDesign Document

Fixed bottom-aligned floats occasionally being placed out of order

Fixed assignment of reading direction of pop-up footnotes when using the --arabic parameter with Cleanup InDesign EPUB

Removed .indb as an allowed input format for Export to IDML

Code optimizations and cleanup

14.0.372 — 4 September 2016

Requires Typefi Server 8.2 or later

NEW Significant performance improvement when placing images

NEW Added support for media (audio and video) elements

NEW Added project fields to TYPEFI.job.fields object for InDesign scripters

Updated error log message when an InDesign document cannot be opened (either created in a new version, a required plug-in is missing, the file is opened by another application, or it's damaged)